The Department of Politics and the Department of the International Cooperation and Exchange of BAI held a virtual meeting with Asia-Pacific Research Center of RAND Corporation of the United States on July 22. Professor Huang Zhihuan, a senior policy researcher of RAND Corporation, was invited to give a report on the theme of the Enlightenment of the New Coronavirus Epidemic Trend on Global Health Governance. The lecture was hosted by Liu Jingdi, deputy director of the International Cooperation and Exchange Department of BAI. More than 60 teachers and students attended the online lecture.

During the lecture, Professor Huang shared her views about the possible origin, clinical symptoms and the global trends of the virus in the United States and the Europe. She expressed that when humans were facing the virus, there were still many limitations and a series of unresolved problems. Under such circumstances, it was urgent for the world to establish a global health governance system, use electronic big data to monitor the epidemic, carry out effective and systematic cooperation between the public health and medical systems in combating the epidemic. In the session of question and answer, Professor Huang conducted in-depth discussions with the participants.

We are one family in this global village. We believe that as long as we worked together and helped each other, we will be able to completely defeat the virus and embrace a better tomorrow.

                                           Written by Liu Jingdi